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Kevin Miao

Toronto,Ontario

Summary

Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience, with a strong foundation in AI, Full-Stack, and DevOps. Committed to leveraging innovative solutions to build tech for good, drive efficiency, and improve workflows, while maintaining a focus on security and system integrity.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineer II

Karat
10.2021 - 02.2024
    • Developed scalable and maintainable code in Ruby on Rails, Python, React, and PostgreSQL ensuring long-term stability of the software.
    • Improved software performance by identifying and resolving bottlenecks in the code. Proactively identified and resolved vulnerabilities.
    • Collaborated with cross-functional teams in researching and developing AI driven products, including interview summary, cheat detection, QC, etc.
    • Architected various microservices to split core functionality using Terraform

Software Engineering Intern - Newsfeed Core ML

Meta
01.2021 - 04.2021
    • Worked with feature engineers to develop an efficient and inexpensive storage so that features can be re-queried easily at scale. Extensively tested with large data pipelines
    • Constructed framework for data pipelines to enable effortless setup of dashboards, alerts, metrics monitoring
    • Proposed and built an improved timing library to resolve mismatches between features and improve memory usage.

Software Engineer - Developer Network/Open Source

Verizon Media
01.2019 - 04.2019
    • Led development of the Yahoo Developer Network /blogs, /events, and /podcasts pages using ExpressJS, React, and MySQL
    • Designed documentation pipeline for technical writers, reducing setup time by 75%. Created custom Markdown parsers in Python to further streamline this process
    • Prototyped service to double the availability of legacy APIs to handle over 10k requests per second using AWS API Gateway.

Software Developer - User Services

Genesys
01.2018 - 04.2018
  • Developed and implemented microservice architecture migration project using Java/Spring and Docker
  • Reduced downtime and simplified rollback procedure by setting up blue-green deployment with AWS CloudFormation
  • Improved deployment pipeline efficiency by 4x through maximizing concurrent workflows and automating manual cherry picking process with Jenkins.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) - Artificial Intelligence

University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON
06.2021

Skills

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Data Engineering
  • Full-Stack Development
  • DevOps
  • Amazon Web Service (AWS)
  • Algorithms & Data Structures

Timeline

Software Engineer II

Karat
10.2021 - 02.2024

Software Engineering Intern - Newsfeed Core ML

Meta
01.2021 - 04.2021

Software Engineer - Developer Network/Open Source

Verizon Media
01.2019 - 04.2019

Software Developer - User Services

Genesys
01.2018 - 04.2018

Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) - Artificial Intelligence

University of Waterloo

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